Page 74 of Divine Obsession

She was good.

She was fucking good.

If she was fucking good, then good. We were good.

I’d nearly suffered from a heart attack, Natalia had cried her eyes out, my parents were clueless, all the surgeons in the goddamn hospital had a Glock pointed at their heads to save her.

But she was fucking good.

All because she couldn’t put the bottle down.

God, and she was barely nineteen.

“Do you want to give us the room to talk?” The soft voice made all the smoke clear from my mind; made all the anger leave my chest.

I slowly looked at Natalia, who was still brushing her fingers over Kali’s forehead. She gave me a soft smile over her shoulder,and I nodded slightly – understanding what she was really asking.

Who was going to tell her? Her or me.

If she wasn’t here, I would’ve obviously did.

But considering they were extremely close and Natalia was a woman – a safe space considering the circumstances – I thought it better if she was the one to tell Kali.

“I’ll just be outside.”

Closing the door behind me, I made my way out of the private salon and down the hallway; too overwhelmed to sit still.

My mind was racing but my head felt underwater.

I barely even realized who it was inside the hospital room as I glanced in while walking past, before halting.

Harvard’s captain.

Broken arm in cast.

Parents sleeping in the armchairs by his bed.

A sick feeling crawled through my chest.

I couldn’t help but feel like what happened to Kali was my karma.

Chapter 18

ONE MONTH LATER

Present

An entire month had passed since the night Kali was hospitalized.

She was doing much better and had fully healed from her surgeries, though she still couldn’t remember anything from that night.

Kali had told me at the hospital before she was discharged that she believed she’d been drugged. She’d made me promise not to say a word about it to Trevor, since she didn’t think he’d understand, considering he still thought she needed to be in AA.

She hadn’t drunk or partied since that night, but I thought it was mostly because she physically couldn’t, rather than not want to.

She was still recovering from the whole incident. She said she was fine, but I knew better. What she went through… It wasn’t something someone just got over.

They still hadn’t caught the attacker, and I could tell that was getting to her.

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